Munsee and English/AmbiguityResolution
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Initial Evaluation of Ambiguity
- Coverage of umu.sentences.txt: 849/1499 (56.64%)
- Ambiguity: 1717/1499 (1.145)
- Coverage of bilingual transducer: 609/1296 (46.99%)
- Coverage of eng.sentences.txt:
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- Coverage of
umu.sentences.txt: 867/1522 (~56.97%)- Ambiguity: 1776/1522 (~1.167)
- Coverage of
umu.corpus.basic.txt: 848/1499 (~56.57%)- Ambiguity: 1738/1499 (~1.159)
Identified Ambiguity
Morphological Ambiguity
- Wan ("this") can be an animate demonstrative pronoun or demonstrative determiner. To resolve this ambiguity, we wrote code to choose the demonstrative determiner tag when wan precedes a noun.
- ^Wan/Wan<det><dem><aa><sg>$ ^moonáhkeew/moonáhkeew<n><aa><sg>/moonáhkeew<n><aa><px3sg>$ ^kawíiw/kawíi<v><iv><aa><s_3sg>$^../..<sent>$ ("This groundhog sleeps" - we created this example.)
- ^Wan/Wan<prn><dem><aa><sg>$ ^ha/há<emph>$ ^meexalapóotiis/meexalapóotiis<n><aa><sg>/meexalapóotiis<n><aa><px3sg>$^../..<sent>$ ("This is a spider.")
- Níil can be a noun ("my head") or an inanimate demonstrative pronoun ("those"). To resolve this ambiguity, we wrote code to choose the inanimate demonstrative pronoun tag when followed by an inanimate plural verb.
- ^Néemunal/*Néemunal$ ^níil/níil<det><dem><nn><pl>$ ^ahpapóonal/áhpapoon<n><nn><pl>$^../..<sent>$ ("I saw them - those chairs.")
- ^Níil/Níil<n><nn><sg>$ ^nuwiinamámaaw/*nuwiinamámaaw$^../..<sent>$ ("I hurt my head" - we created this example.)
- Há can be both a question marker and an emphatic marker. To resolve this ambiguity, we wrote code to choose the question marker when the sentences with a question mark.
- ^Káta/*Káta$ ^ha/há<qst>$ ^wŭlút/wŭlút<v><iv><nn><s_sg>$^?/?<sent>$^./.<sent>$ ("Is it going to be good?")
- ^Wan/Wan<prn><dem><aa><sg>$ ^ha/há<emph>$ ^meexalapóotiis/meexalapóotiis<n><aa><sg>/meexalapóotiis<n><aa><px3sg>$^../..<sent>$ ("This is a spider.")
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